Widgetized Section

Go to Admin » Appearance » Widgets » and move Gabfire Widget: Social into that MastheadOverlay zone

39 people are still missing in Changsha building collapse case and 9 people have been arrested

Posted by on 2022/05/01. Filed under Breaking News,China,Headline News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Changsha building collapse belongs to the old house, located in Changsha Wangcheng District jinshanqiao street Jinping community Panshuwan, adjacent to changsha Medical College. The exact cause of the collapse is still under investigation, but authorities did not say until yesterday that 23 people were trapped, five had been rescued and 39 were still missing.

Changsha police set up a task force to investigate the incident, the Central News Agency quoted Chinese authorities as saying. Public security authorities have detained nine people, including Wu and four people in charge of design and construction, surnamed Long, Ren and Xue, for their role in the collapse.

In addition, on April 13 this year, Hunan Xiangda project detection Co., Ltd. on the construction of the family hotel (4, 5, 6 floor) after the housing security identification issued a false housing security identification report, the company legal representative Tan and technical personnel Ning, Soup, Liu, Gong and other 5 people suspected of providing false proof of document crime.

As the building collapsed near the north gate of Changsha Medical College, Li Lin (pseudonym), an employee of a nearby milk tea shop interviewed by China Newsweek, said the accident happened at lunchtime, when students were out for lunch.

Therefore, after the accident, a number of missing information appeared on social media platforms, including changsha medical students. The school is still searching for the missing students. Others said their relatives and employees had lost contact.

According to the central News Agency, accidents caused by renovation and expansion of buildings or related businesses have become a common occurrence in China in recent years. For example, on March 7, 2020, the building collapse of xinjia Hotel, an isolated hotel in Quanzhou city, Fujian Province, resulted in 29 deaths and 50 injuries, and the accident was related to illegal reconstruction. In August, a hotel banquet hall collapsed in Xiangfen County, Shanxi Province, during a birthday party for an elderly man, killing 29 and injuring 28.

comments powered by Disqus